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The soundtrack to
the movie The Crow was released in 1994. Its biggest hit song was "Big Empty" by the Stone Temple Pilots, which was also
on their album Purple. The album featured many covers including Nine Inch Nails who covered Joy Division's "Dead Souls,"
Pantera who covered Poison Idea's "The Badge," and Rollins Band who covered Suicide's "Ghost Rider," which is about a
Marvel Comics character.Rage Against the Machine re-recorded their 1991 b-side Darkness of Greed and simply
re-named it "Darkness" for this soundtrack. Also, The Cure rewrote their song "Burn" for the movie. Despite requests,
they have never performed the song live.[citation needed]The inclusion of songs written by The Cure and Joy
Division are notable because the influences of both bands are present in the original comic book. James O'Barr, the
creator of The Crow, reprinted the lyrics to the song "The Hanging Garden" by The Cure on an entire page, and some
chapters of the comic book are named after Joy Division songs, "Atmosphere" and "Atrocity Exhibition", for example. In
one panel, Eric even quotes a lyric from the song "Disorder" from the album Unknown Pleasures. O'Barr was a big fan of
both bands when he was creating the comic book.